hello, welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. ahead this hour, moscow s victory parade with everything from goose-stepping soldiers to the latest intercontinental ballistic missiles. the only thing that was missing was victory in ukraine. no end in sight, even you a new covid cases are falling. officials in shanghai have suddenly tightened pandemic restrictions. and what began as a jailhouse romance comes to a deadly end for a former alabama prison guard who helped a suspected murderer escape. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. where the port city of odesa appears to be the target of a ramped up russian attack, including cruise missiles fired from the air and sea. on monday, multiple missile strikes reported throughout the day. many analysts believe russia wants to capture all of ukraine s black sea ports. in mariupol, ukrainian fighters say they re still folding out at that besieged steel plant. government video shows a ukrainian
manhunt through lee three state. they are in custody. reporter: and the sheriff detailing what happened when u.s. marshals captured corrections officer vicky white and inmate casey white. this truck and casey white spotted in everyansville. after the vehicle was located, we at least knew that they may have been in our area but i couldn t believe that they had remained here. reporter: monday u.s. marshals found them in a hotel in everyansville. and they fled, casey white driving. u.s. marshals pinned their car, they ended up in a ditch. casey white surrendered, but vicky white had a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. she died from the injuries monday night. this is a small agency, we re like family. some of these younger deputdepu she was like a mother figure to them and i know that they will take it hard. reporter: the sheriff says casey white will be brought back tole b alabama for his arraignm. he s not getting out again. reporter: and district attorn
and as putin celebrates his invasion of ukraine, what is the u.s. trying to do about it, when all in starts right now. good evening everyone. from new york, i m ayman mohyeldin in for chris hayes. we have some year of elation from donald trump secretary of defense about the absolute chaos that he and others face during the last year of the trump administration. in an interview with 60 minutes, mark esper described some of the dangerous ideas that were coming from the ex president and his inner circle, that he says, quote, could have taken the country in a dark direction. at various times, doing certainly the last year of the administration, we have folks in the white house, proposing to take military action against venezuela, to strike iran. at one point, if somebody proposed we blockade cuba, these ideas would happen, it seemed, every few weeks, something like this would come up. we have to swap them down. and donald trump even proposed ordering the united states
that russian war planes haven t been able to gain air superiority despite flying 200 to 300 missions aa day. and russian units are suffering from major morale and discipline problems. a top u.s. official tells the washington post, they believe that middle rank russian military officers uks, some as high up as battalion commanders are slow in carrying out orders or refusing them altogether. a really terrible sign for the russians. and it shows once again just how rotten the culture is, the russian military. let s bring in right now former president of ukraine petro poroshenko. thank you for being with us. it seems when you hear the news out of the donbas and the news out of odessa, you put it together and it seems like more of the same. the russians targeting children, grandparents, mothers, other civilians. but not being able to do a damn thing on the ground when they actual i have to fight a war. where does this war stand right now, the day after victory day? first of
murder suspect on the run now for custody, amazing story how they were tracked down. let s go outfront. and good evening, welcome to special edition of outfront live in kyiv tonight. i m erin burnett and we begin with the breaking news, explosions rocking the ukrainian city of odesa tonight. witnesses say a large shopper center has been hit. russia pounding the crucial port city in recent days and in mariupol this hour, russian forces we understand are storming the steel plant where ukrainian soldiers are holed up. as ukraine s ministry of defense releases this video, they show ukraine s flag flying tonight over that steel plant and cia director bill burns says putin is stepping up his assault in ukraine because he does not believe he can afford to lose this war. it all comes as putin gives a defiant message to the world during his so-called victory day speech, putin referred to new nazi threats in ukraine, again, making the baseless claim this invasion is meant to de-n